Since history witnessed the appearance of nation-state, it had been recognized as the taken-for-granted-political-principle that national and political units should be congruent. However, prior to the nation-state constructed, there had been more than one ethnic or national groups abiding on the land incorporated into territory of nation-state. To accomplish the principle, the group holding ruling power always invented or constructed a so-called high culture to build nation-state and ethnic/national minorities without power usually underwent cultural oppressions by the ruling group. The minority groups did not passively wait to be dealt by the regime. They developed their own solutions and strategies to the oppressions. This article attempts to examine how the high culture is constructed and further used to build modern nation-state, as well as how ethnic/national minorities tackled the oppressive policies imposed by government.